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This Stunning Image Is The Highest Resolution We've Ever Seen Atoms (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So it's galaxies all the way down?

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And all the way up!

There are organisms for whom our galaxies are seen as cells.

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What organisms are those?

[–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your mom.

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fucking rekt him.

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago

Brb, nuking account, destroying phone and burning my clothing.

[–] jimerson@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

This is just really neat. Keep up the good work, scientists!

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One step closer to teleporters

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Screw teleporters, I want replicators

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

[–] CmdrUlle@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

Real monkey paw here...

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aww, that guy's kinda cute, why wouldn't I want to let it live in my house with its pals?

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's just a toy!

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

I’ve been watching SG1 for the first time and recently watched this episode. Buckets of fun!

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

All of the above and holodecks please

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I suppose replicators are an inevitable punctuated step on the way.

[–] Blum0108@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there much difference between the two logistically? Seems like the replicator is just the second half of a transporter.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Well there's an episode in ds9 where a replicator is modified into a teleporter, so in the star trek universe they're very similar. Replicators reconstitute matter from waste material, and seems to me to be far more likely in the realm of scientific possibility.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

It's incredible that we can actually 'see' the atomic lattice and it's also pretty wicked that the oxygen atom is more 'fuzzy' because, I think given the explanation on how they imaged this, it's less dense than praseodymium and scandium.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Crazy

[–] bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

how do they achieve higher resolutions than with former electron microscopes.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They use a technique called ptychography. They explain it a bit more in the article.

[–] bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

The way they describe it in the article is how I understand a electron microscope works

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

interferometry

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Neat!